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It is somewhat disturbing as a concept. Industrialized slaughter has heavy implications from how we treat our environment and even each other. The tech's simplicity makes it more disturbing to me. It's not something elaborate or really man-made, it's a harnessed form of nature. Basically a contained version of what happened to those people in that sub to the Titanic.
Lobsters don't have brains in the same way we do, they have nerve clusters distributed through their segmented bodies. As such, it's likely we will never understand what they experience.
There's a ton more data and history here (Wikipedia: pain in crustaceans). I'm glad we as people continue to question the ethics of animal consumption. We have more food options than most other animals, and we can take advantage of that if we wish to.
I do like that it reduces food waste, because I do think if we are killing animals, we should at least make full use of them.